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  1. gil4
    Drafting 4-5-6 over three years and producing one utility guy from that is disappointing.
  2. gil4
    We can only hope. As the saying goes, hope is not a plan.
  3. gil4
    I am glad he was on the Twins, and I'm glad he came back after he left, but I wouldn't vote for him. He was one of the best defensive CF of his generation. Ozzie Smith was one of the best defensive SS of all time, possibly the best. That's not a small difference. While SS and CF are both considered premium defensive positions, SS is far more premium. (SS= Ruth's Chris. CF=Texas Roadhouse) Also, while OPS and OPS+ are useful estimates of a player's offense, they tend to undervalue guys who generate most of their offense from OBP rather than SLG. Ozzie and Torii didn't have a huge gap in OBP (career .337 to .331), Ozzie's was higher. If you compare their oWAR over the course of their careers, they close. If you compare their dWAR, they aren't. (dWAR might be flawed, but not THAT flawed. 44.2 to 4.0 career dWAR).
  4. gil4
    You managed to see more Twins games in person in a year than I have seen in 58 years. I have only seen about a half-dozen home games (two in the dome, the rest in the old Met) so I'm usually in enemy territory (Fenway and old Yankee stadium when I was younger, three Texas stadiums after that.) Twins fans are usually well represented in Arlington, and the Texas fans are usually pretty friendly. I need to make it to Target Field. (I also want to hit KC - it's about 8 hours away.}
  5. gil4
    By that standard, I hate this signing.
  6. gil4
    It took me at least a month to hate that one.
  7. gil4

    the Anti- Correa move

    gil4 commented on Doc Munson's blog entry in Fantasy GM

    I agree, The Yankees' bubble never seems to burst, They just wait a couple of years and make a bigger bubble.
  8. gil4
    And a unicorn. We need the unicorn.
  9. gil4
    I'll say it. This contract takes him to age 39. My guess is his arm falls off closer to age 34 than 39. If they get two very good seasons and one decent season from him, I would consider that a success (and I would be surprised.)
  10. gil4
    His success wasn't too long after he was a rule-5 draftee. He was one of the older guys selected in rule 5 - age 32. (Dec 2007) But in March 2008, the Twins technically received him back from Seattle and traded him to them instead. Then he came back to the Twins in Dec 2008. After spending the 2009 season with the Twins, (33 innings in Rochester, 64 innings with the big club), he signed with the Mets that offseason. With the Mets, he had two really good seasons (3.6 WAR each) followed by his Cy Young season in 2012.
  11. gil4
    The team is too soft as it is, and now they are bringing in this guy? Will the 7th inning stretch be replaced by 7th inning nap time (players included this time - I know plenty us were already in full nap mode by the 7th inning in half the games last year.)
  12. gil4
    What pitcher doesn't have an injury history? I'm more concerned about guys who have unresolved injury histories (Paddock, Mahle, Maeda) than guys who have had TJ surgery and are back throwing like they did before.
  13. gil4
    I agree. Every pitcher is a gamble. May doesn't seem like an unusually risky option. If the price is right, sure. If he's a big splash, I'd prefer to splash elsewhere.
  14. gil4
    Will we be shopping for a pitcher whose arm is about to fall off or one whose upper-90's fastball is only topped by the resulting exit velocities? (Or will we just take one of each again?)
  15. gil4
    Adding more to your defense, Correa might have been last year's Judge, with some differences. (Correa wasn't coming off a historical season and his previous team wasn't the Yankees and had already moved on.). So yes, anything can happen.
  16. gil4
    Godwin's law - make Hitler comparison = thread over/you lose Gil4's law - Suggest signing Aaron Judge...
  17. gil4
    You don't like he Sano version?
  18. gil4
    One of my favorite GIFs. Any offense I might have taken to your comment is faked so I could use it.
  19. gil4
    My first thought was "Why are they going to show a 'highlight' of him striking out?"
  20. gil4
    Maybe it has something to do with the "ex" part. (100% tongue-in-cheek) Some people don't like it when former MLB players (or top level athletes in any sport) won't give it up after they can no longer compete at the top level, but I'm all in favor of it. If he wants to play and someone will have him on a pteam, let him play. I played slow-pitch softball through age 45, when my knees just would no longer allow it. When my wife asked when I was going to quit, I would tell her "when they pry my DeMarini from my cold, dead hands," but it didn't last quite that long. Now I umpire.
  21. gil4
    That must have been what finally put him over the top with the HoF voters.
  22. gil4
    Bummed that I missed the auction. They all went for reasonable prices. (And that really was a nice-looking uniform.)
  23. gil4
    I like those jerseys - are they ones they use regularly (an alternate road jersey) or are they a special occasional or one-time jersey?
  24. gil4
    Against the Yankees he has spent more time choking than breathing...
  25. gil4

    Where's Wallner?

    gil4 commented on Doc Munson's blog entry in Fantasy GM

    Even then I'd say he's a long-shot. Rosters don't expand nearly as much as they used to.
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